Last night Jon, Clark, Jim and I continued playing Neverwinter Nights 2. We had a lot of fun!

Jon's character (ack, forgot the name) is a Human Cleric who will be a Warpriest. :D No surprises there. He even plays kinda Alexsei-ish!

Clark is playing Senel Goldenbridge, I think he's a shield dwarf? Or some sort of dwarf. Started as a monk, but he's going to take full advantage of NWN2's weird rules for multiclassing. (Figures!)

Jim is playing an Earth Genasi he named Rocky McMeatshield (hehehe, continuing with the theme of the PSU character). He's pretty much a fighter who will continue to be a badass fighter. I don't know if he's interested in multiclassing or not.

And my character is Tezima Auraphel, a Tiefling Rogue I'll be making into an Arcane Trickster (likely Rogue 5 / Wizard 5 / Arcane Trickster 10).

Clark, Jim, Jon and I played our last run of Phantasy Star Universe on PS2/PC tonight.

It was fun. :) We did a bunch of Crimson Beast and Lab Recovery S2 for old times' sake, since we used to grind those missions really often (back when those were the easiest of the S2s and we were like... 100 levels smaller, or something like.)

I took a whole bunch of screenshots throughout the last couple months of our PSU playing, and made sure to get plenty tonight as well. At the end of our last mission we ran around and shot missile weapons and too screenshots like they were fireworks. We also got a group pic of the veteran Guardian crew standing together looking badass: S0YL3NT-G (Clark), Furry McGrowlson (Jim), Shirai Aires (Jon), Reina Hidalgo (me).

I also made sure to get shots of Reina's room, her final stats and equipment, and even had her do some RP monologue (probably cause I'm a dork). Reina and Shirai shared a last moment together, too. It was sweet.

Well I'm back, and I have a few things to say. (Note: I wrote most of this while depressed, and we all know how pessimistic I am when that happens.)

First of all: Linode! I have my eye on this. It's cloud hosting like Slicehost, but apparently even better price-wise. Even Drupal users are giving it praises. Looks so nice... and I am getting concerned with the lagging on HostForWeb. It's just getting incredibly bad and I'm tired of month after month being told to post my traceroute as if this is going to solve anything. :(

Lately I've been told there are load balancing issues, and they're going to fix it... but I've heard that one before too.

I'm just worried because I'm not particularly motivated lately. If I move my site, it may take me a while to set up. And that's fine for me, but not fine for other people I'm hosting. :/ I'll be doing this from scratch, so I have to install everything successfully, and I'm totally unsure I can do this well within a reasonable timeframe. After what happened with Slicehost (me just lagging on actually DOING anything with it) I'm worried it will be a waste of money, particularly since I am planning to order the $40/mo version and thus will be paying $80 a month until I migrate everything.

As for my recent vacation...

Well we couldn't really go out today due to lack of money (well, sorta... we were waiting for Jon's money to come in but it hadn't yet) and also the fact that it's incredibly cold out today. :( On top of that, I have been sleeping totally screwed up hours lately and can't seem to fix that.

We are going to formally celebrate sometime early January though... already booked the hotel and stuff. I'll stick an announcement up about that later! Jon and I are going to spend some alone time with each other then. <3

I am terrible at multitasking... It makes me slow at everything. When I was doing RPoL, DR, chatting to Kalli and others on AIM, AND poking at my facebook account, that was pretty crazy. o.O It's especially made me incredibly slow in RPoL, which means I will have to be stricter with myself. Stay off IMs and script DR while writing... play DR fully while chatting... write RPoL and chat a bit, maybe. And etc.

I think my limit is 2 ;) Should remember that when I'm back in college again!

I've been working with hostforweb to try and speed up my site. There were some memory errors lately, which I think have been fixed. I'm not sure about whether the speed is better though.

What I really want is a Xen VPS... Unfortunately I don't think hostforweb has those. But I'm also kind of iffy about moving my entire site without testing the server first. I know, I got slicehost for that. But I'm so lazy with it that I think I'll have to cancel and wait until I have more time to think about webstuff. Besides the fact that I'm not really confident moving my site to slicehost, as it feels more appropriate as a testing environment.

Roleplay and writing have been my main time foci lately, beyond worrying about things like reapplying for college (which I may wait till January to do now, as I've been told no one looks at the files anyway until after holidays), and whether I really will get my passport on Nov 25 (it would not surprise me if I'm getting jerked around again, geez). Oh and ordering new wedding bands and planning our little vacation for our 5th annversary (we'll be gone from Dec 17th-21st).

We also made a few purchases lately that have been entertaining and fun.